I am very concerned.

[Pat Vegas]

I have nothing to say.

[Luis Anaconda]

I have nothing to say.
Have we got a game this weekend?

[Sir C]

I have nothing to say.

You're a young urban professional, f. Living in that London, finger on the pulse and so on.

Are all your (no doubt) young, trendy friends absolutely incandescent with grief and anger about Brexit, as twitter and the BBC seem to suggest?

[Burney]

You're a young urban professional, f. Living in that London, finger on the pulse and so on.

Are all your (no doubt) young, trendy friends absolutely incandescent with grief and anger about Brexit, as twitter and the BBC seem to suggest?

They've probably all been up all night having the old candlelit vigils imo.

[Pat Vegas]

Have we got a game this weekend?

I think so. Nobody even seems to be concerned that Alexis is going to Chelsea :hehe:

[IUFG]

I think so. Nobody even seems to be concerned that Alexis is going to Chelsea :hehe:

we never sell our best players to other Premier League clubs.










oh...

[Pat Vegas]

You're a young urban professional, f. Living in that London, finger on the pulse and so on.

Are all your (no doubt) young, trendy friends absolutely incandescent with grief and anger about Brexit, as twitter and the BBC seem to suggest?

a lot of my friends now have got married and just had kids, and a few have moved out of London. so the old ways of socialising are over and it's more of a meeting up every few months for a dinner which involves motorway driving and then looking at their boring baby hours and of course bringing a toy for the kid. Then that couple will question us intensely on why we are not having a kid. and for the wons who don't have kids it's the usual dinner party type *******s. when I have guests I feel this over urge to entertain and show people things. they talk about brexit and I try to avoid it.

It all feels very grown up.

I got excited about buying a new vacuum cleaner last weekend. :-( And now the new washing machine :cloud9:

[Rich]

we never sell our best players to other Premier League clubs.










oh...

What do we do, though?

AS: Boss, I want to leave. I don't think Arsenal match my ambitions.
AW: Very well, we will sell you to someone abroad.
AS: I want to stay in London. My dogs like it here.
AW: Well we won't sanction your sale to a rival.
AS: Fine, I will stay for one more year and you will lose me for free. I'll also play like a **** in my final season.
AW: OK, we'll sell you to Chelsea. We owe them a favour for Cech, after all.

[Pokster]

What do we do, though?

AS: Boss, I want to leave. I don't think Arsenal match my ambitions.
AW: Very well, we will sell you to someone abroad.
AS: I want to stay in London. My dogs like it here.
AW: Well we won't sanction your sale to a rival.
AS: Fine, I will stay for one more year and you will lose me for free. I'll also play like a **** in my final season.
AW: OK, we'll sell you to Chelsea. We owe them a favour for Cech, after all.

I doubt we will sell him to Chelsea.. and it doesn't seem to be in his make-up to play **** at any stage..... ayear out of a footballers life is along time, so he will either sign and stay or leave in the summer

[Sir C]

a lot of my friends now have got married and just had kids, and a few have moved out of London. so the old ways of socialising are over and it's more of a meeting up every few months for a dinner which involves motorway driving and then looking at their boring baby hours and of course bringing a toy for the kid. Then that couple will question us intensely on why we are not having a kid. and for the wons who don't have kids it's the usual dinner party type *******s. when I have guests I feel this over urge to entertain and show people things. they talk about brexit and I try to avoid it.

It all feels very grown up.

I got excited about buying a new vacuum cleaner last weekend. :-( And now the new washing machine :cloud9:

If you'd waited until the EU had loosened its grip on our nation's throat you'd have been able to buy a properly powerful hoover.

[Burney]

a lot of my friends now have got married and just had kids, and a few have moved out of London. so the old ways of socialising are over and it's more of a meeting up every few months for a dinner which involves motorway driving and then looking at their boring baby hours and of course bringing a toy for the kid. Then that couple will question us intensely on why we are not having a kid. and for the wons who don't have kids it's the usual dinner party type *******s. when I have guests I feel this over urge to entertain and show people things. they talk about brexit and I try to avoid it.

It all feels very grown up.

I got excited about buying a new vacuum cleaner last weekend. :-( And now the new washing machine :cloud9:

Sounds to me like your problem with your pals isn't so much babies as the fact that you don't drink enough. All such issues pale into insignificance once everyone's pïssed.

[Sir C]

Have we got a game this weekend?

:nod: A gubbing awaits.

[Rich]

:nod: A gubbing awaits.

The Daily Star have discovered that Arsene's future rests solely on this game. A win or draw and he announces that he's signing a two year deal. A loss and he decides to resign.

Let's hope for a battering :cloud9:

[Pat Vegas]

Sounds to me like your problem with your pals isn't so much babies as the fact that you don't drink enough. All such issues pale into insignificance once everyone's pïssed.

Well I normally do the driving and whilst the option is there I really do not like to stay over for the night.

I got this weird thing where I need at least part of the weekend to relax.

[Burney]

Well I normally do the driving and whilst the option is there I really do not like to stay over for the night.

I got this weird thing where I need at least part of the weekend to relax.

That's odd. On the rare occasions I see friends, I tend to want to see them for as long as possible. Perhaps the problem is that you don't really like your friends very much anymore?

[Luis Anaconda]

The Daily Star have discovered that Arsene's future rests solely on this game. A win or draw and he announces that he's signing a two year deal. A loss and he decides to resign.

Let's hope for a battering :cloud9:
Not like you to be a total prick ... oh

[Pat Vegas]

That's odd. On the rare occasions I see friends, I tend to want to see them for as long as possible. Perhaps the problem is that you don't really like your friends very much anymore?

Things change a bit when people become couples and kids are in the mix. I should make more of an effort really.

[Luis Anaconda]

Things change a bit when people become couples and kids are in the mix. I should make more of an effort really.
Just get new friends

[Burney]

Things change a bit when people become couples and kids are in the mix. I should make more of an effort really.

Oh, I know. There's bound to be a thinning of the herd. It's a natural process.

[Pat Vegas]

Just get new friends

Don't you reach a point when you feel like you don't need any new friends.

In the past I'd go out for all sorts of work drinks and that. Now I can't be bothered.

[Sir C]

Don't you reach a point when you feel like you don't need any new friends.

In the past I'd go out for all sorts of work drinks and that. Now I can't be bothered.

Friends always let you down in the end by killing themselves, in my experience.

[Pat Vegas]

Oh, I know. There's bound to be a thinning of the herd. It's a natural process.

That's what I started realising for my wedding when I was thinking of who to invite.
The list could have gone on and on but decided to keep it small.

Then when Facebook etc came along it was great to find really good old friends on there but all that happens is you send maybe 1 or 2 messages saying hello what you've been doing? then it's just saying happy birthday once a year. That friendship was then and now it's different.

[Luis Anaconda]

Don't you reach a point when you feel like you don't need any new friends.

In the past I'd go out for all sorts of work drinks and that. Now I can't be bothered.

I really quite like people :shrug: I came here five years ago knowing no one. Would have been pretty miserable if I didn't go out and meet people *



*watch football in pubs

[Burney]

That's what I started realising for my wedding when I was thinking of who to invite.
The list could have gone on and on but decided to keep it small.

Then when Facebook etc came along it was great to find really good old friends on there but all that happens is you send maybe 1 or 2 messages saying hello what you've been doing? then it's just saying happy birthday once a year. That friendship was then and now it's different.

Well this is the thing. The business of actually seeing friends becomes a bit of an arse-ache. I arranged to meet an old chum in town on Friday night a couple of weeks back and for pretty much the entire week beforehand I was grumbling about it. I had a lovely time when I got there, of course, but the prospect of having to go out on a Friday night just seemed horrific.

[Pat Vegas]

Well this is the thing. The business of actually seeing friends becomes a bit of an arse-ache. I arranged to meet an old chum in town on Friday night a couple of weeks back and for pretty much the entire week beforehand I was grumbling about it. I had a lovely time when I got there, of course, but the prospect of having to go out on a Friday night just seemed horrific.

I have the same thing. I dread these things as friday night seems like the worst time to go out as I am usually most tired by that point. Though when I do go I have a good time. It's not an anxiety thing anymore like I used to have. I am just tired and it's a pain getting home. Plus things are not exactly cheap these days.

The thing that annoys me the most about a night out on a busy night is then when people decide they want to have dinner and we are in West end and it's an endless walk around trying to find somewhere with space. having to wait around kills my evening.

[Luis Anaconda]

Well this is the thing. The business of actually seeing friends becomes a bit of an arse-ache. I arranged to meet an old chum in town on Friday night a couple of weeks back and for pretty much the entire week beforehand I was grumbling about it. I had a lovely time when I got there, of course, but the prospect of having to go out on a Friday night just seemed horrific.

:hehe: You miserable ****er, b. Mind you, I do know what you mean. I dislike it when I actually have something on a Friday night rather than just the spontaneous after-work drinks (spontaneous as in it happens every week, with the same people in the same place, of course)

[Pat Vegas]

:hehe: You miserable ****er, b. Mind you, I do know what you mean. I dislike it when I actually have something on a Friday night rather than just the spontaneous after-work drinks (spontaneous as in it happens every week, with the same people in the same place, of course)

I told my wife this. I said if you have something planned on Friday night for us to meet up with people let me know around 4:30pm on Friday. so I don't have a lot of time to moan about it.

[Pat Vegas]

I really quite like people :shrug: I came here five years ago knowing no one. Would have been pretty miserable if I didn't go out and meet people *



*watch football in pubs

That's good.

I like people too. I just seem to be hesitant to invest any time in making new friends.

[Burney]

:hehe: You miserable ****er, b. Mind you, I do know what you mean. I dislike it when I actually have something on a Friday night rather than just the spontaneous after-work drinks (spontaneous as in it happens every week, with the same people in the same place, of course)

It's a strange thing. When I was younger, I would spend all week looking forward to going out on Friday, spend hours on the phone sorting out plans and would feel a miserable loser on the rare occasions there was nothing going on and I had to stay in. These days, I'm often tempted to find an excuse not to go out even when I do have plans (I never do, of course, but I am tempted). I'm not sure when this change took place.

[IUFG]

Well I normally do the driving and whilst the option is there I really do not like to stay over for the night.

I got this weird thing where I need at least part of the weekend to relax.

Have you ever done a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, f?

Interesting stuff if you like a bit of psychology. Sounds like you are an I not an E type of person.

www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/

[Burney]

Have you ever done a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, f?

Interesting stuff if you like a bit of psychology. Sounds like you are an I not an E type of person.

www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/

The trouble with that, surely, is that it relies one one's perception of oneself, which is notoriously unreliable? I mean, I think I'm an INTP, but people who know me might think otherwise.

[IUFG]

Most assessments they do these days are pretty reliable, but admittedly not 100% accurate.

Over the years I have taken many tests and have only ever got a result of ISTP or ISTJ.

The feedback I got from others has always been that it was pretty accurate.

[Pat Vegas]

Most assessments they do these days are pretty reliable, but admittedly not 100% accurate.

Over the years I have taken many tests and have only ever got a result of ISTP or ISTJ.

The feedback I got from others has always been that it was pretty accurate.

I'll have a look but I don't really need a type or a category to fall into. I know I am a bit odd and think about things differently,